In order to document the experiences of the Makkala Panchayats and their immense positive impact on rejuvenating democracy, we have made the film 'Makkala Grama Swaraj' (Born with Rights' in English). These experiences are set in the larger frame of democracy in the country -- and in establishing the citizenship of children. The film covers the Makkala Panchayats in Karnataka that have empowered the children who are associated with it and given the local governments a new lease of life with their active involvement in not only identifying the problems they face, but also proposing solutions. They have made detailed presentations regarding the issues and problems they identified related to education, basic facilities, personal problems, gender discrimination, disability and child labour. In the course of the film it becomes clear how children collect issues from each ward and explore the problems thoroughly. They are able to not just raise a problem but also propose solutions! that are most appropriate to them. For instance, one of the problems that came up at a meeting was the lack of footbridges that severely hampered the mobility of children as well as adults. Children who feature in the film explain how in order to propose specific solutions; they had to collect more details such as where exactly the footbridges were required, of what length, how many people would benefit from that, etc. Adult facilitators have helped them in this process by asking critical questions
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